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berkeley author of exorbitant privilege thank you. all right it's time now for word of the day where we break down the term for our smart viewer but just perhaps not the expert and given our conversation with professor i can bring about the international monetary system and the role of the u.s. dollar the word of the day it is that you've got to get it dollar index now there is certainly plenty of mention of the dollar and on mainstream financial outlets. the dollar index has hit a month in the dollar index and the last six months has dropped fourteen percent you know the dollar index is a great benchmark everybody's grown very accustomed to it i've been looking at it for years. ok so it's always use to really look at what's happening with the dollar but what is it exactly it is a measure of the value of the u.s. dollar relative to the majority of its most significant trading partners relative to a basket of foreign currencies but what exactly fills up this basket well the index is calculated by factoring in the exchange rate of six m
berkeley author of exorbitant privilege thank you. all right it's time now for word of the day where we break down the term for our smart viewer but just perhaps not the expert and given our conversation with professor i can bring about the international monetary system and the role of the u.s. dollar the word of the day it is that you've got to get it dollar index now there is certainly plenty of mention of the dollar and on mainstream financial outlets. the dollar index has hit a month in the...
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and the salvation army is at the center of a controversy at u.c. berkeley.
and the salvation army is at the center of a controversy at u.c. berkeley.
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they get to u.c. berkeley where there is over 34,000 students. as you can imagine, fish out of the water there. not only the academic load but the fact this that they have to work while going to school, there is so much going on with them academically dealing with financial aid and all of that not focused on where they need to be when they leave school which is very short period of time. this is real problem at universities now. students are coming into the university and prepared for their academics but not for the professional world. >> there is a lot of stuff, it's more than just staying in school. it's about professional development and personal skills. >> it's much more than that. that is why we see, when we students identify with career that academics go up naturally. what we provide is a professional development skills like presentation skills and negotiation skills, professional writing. i had no idea when i started the program that most students didn't know how to write a letter. frequently students don't know how to shake hands. giving
they get to u.c. berkeley where there is over 34,000 students. as you can imagine, fish out of the water there. not only the academic load but the fact this that they have to work while going to school, there is so much going on with them academically dealing with financial aid and all of that not focused on where they need to be when they leave school which is very short period of time. this is real problem at universities now. students are coming into the university and prepared for their...
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. >> cheryl: you teach dance at u.c. berkeley? >> i teach music. i teach music and you'll be dancing, too. the two are one and same. >> cheryl: why is it so important to be part of this? >> in the diverse culture sharing the cultural experiences is a very important thing. >> cheryl: people get to know each other? >> people get to know one another and all the stereotypes get wiped out. we can talk to each other and keep the peace and build the community. >> cheryl: that is beautifully said. we have to talk about money. i know the budget has been a struggle to put the event on. >> it started when the economic downturn started and we lost month most of our government funding and corporate funding. in 2011 we got word they were closing the parking lot with the doyle drive construction project. we've been there 25 years and new venues have fewer seats. those loss of seats have translated to a hundred thousand dollar per year lost income revenue which has put us in a very difficult financial position. >> cheryl: you had auditions? >> the auditions are a
. >> cheryl: you teach dance at u.c. berkeley? >> i teach music. i teach music and you'll be dancing, too. the two are one and same. >> cheryl: why is it so important to be part of this? >> in the diverse culture sharing the cultural experiences is a very important thing. >> cheryl: people get to know each other? >> people get to know one another and all the stereotypes get wiped out. we can talk to each other and keep the peace and build the community....
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>> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c. berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication of these two books. >> my first book was "from jesus to christ." and that was published in 1988. and "jesus of nazareth" was published a few months ago. what changed is time elapsed, i continued to work in the field and learned more. >> isn't it the all-important question of why jesus was killed, you now believe he represented a limited threat to public order during the festival of passover rather than a major threat to roman rule? >> i don't think anybody thinks he, includin
>> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c. berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your...
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. >> mike: but they did and after a stint at the haas business school at u.c. berkeley, she opened this location, one that includes a music venue and has played host to a string of sports and entertainment celebrities. contacts and connections that are leading everett and jones to a southern california expansion. >> i'm also expanding, too. i have a store coming up in los angeles. so future's great. >> mike: along with bricks and mortar and researching opportunities for their ribs in retail, the everett and jones name is spreading across the u.s., the sauce available in 300 stores. and thanks to the internet, internationally orders coming in from fresno to france, from roanoke to russia. it seems once they taste it, well-- >> my mom always said word of mouth is the best advertisement. >> particularly when the words taste so good. >> mike: there is no business that is recession proof but there is one that comes close: pets, and all the stuff people buy for them. americans spent over $50 billion on their pets in 2011, the largest chunk of that on food. there are
. >> mike: but they did and after a stint at the haas business school at u.c. berkeley, she opened this location, one that includes a music venue and has played host to a string of sports and entertainment celebrities. contacts and connections that are leading everett and jones to a southern california expansion. >> i'm also expanding, too. i have a store coming up in los angeles. so future's great. >> mike: along with bricks and mortar and researching opportunities for their...
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berkeley were nice enough to give away a million dollars in scholarships for everyone everyone that's an illegal immigrant yeah that's right if you're born in america then pay to jump the border and enjoy the red carpet education treatment the people who will be getting the scholarships are mostly the children of illegal immigrants who spent many of their formative years in america and yeah i could see the logic that could be hard for them to get an education when the when they aren't citizens but they came into the country illegally it isn't taxpayers jobs to help them but wait berkeley it's a private institution so i guess they can give out the money to whoever they want whenever they want however they want but berkeley management if you're watching this i would really appreciate if you chose some financial mercy to american citizens it isn't like they don't need the help but that's just my opinion. and this is free cretaceous free storage. free risk free. free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video down to r.t. dot com. i. think i. would be soon
berkeley were nice enough to give away a million dollars in scholarships for everyone everyone that's an illegal immigrant yeah that's right if you're born in america then pay to jump the border and enjoy the red carpet education treatment the people who will be getting the scholarships are mostly the children of illegal immigrants who spent many of their formative years in america and yeah i could see the logic that could be hard for them to get an education when the when they aren't citizens...
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berkeley now that interview you watching you were fired up about it so first here is why he said that gold could not be a reserve currency let's take a listen. but. gold doesn't really have the liquidity that importers exporters and financial market participants require. so hi rick how do you respond to that issue of the lack of liquidity. well anything which is marginalized by legal tender laws an existing monetary convention is not going to be as liquid as that which is enforced as legal tender and which as a legacy of the bretton woods agreements is the global reserve i mean with all due respect to barry his reasoning here is tautological it's circular the fact is if something is accepted as a global reserve it is more liquid he's reasoning in a circle that said don't get me wrong the united states' economy is large obviously the volume of dollars circulating as large as a result of that but in one thousand nine hundred forty four when the bretton woods agreements were negotiated the united states was essentially fifty percent one half of the entire global economy and today it's sl
berkeley now that interview you watching you were fired up about it so first here is why he said that gold could not be a reserve currency let's take a listen. but. gold doesn't really have the liquidity that importers exporters and financial market participants require. so hi rick how do you respond to that issue of the lack of liquidity. well anything which is marginalized by legal tender laws an existing monetary convention is not going to be as liquid as that which is enforced as legal...
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berkeley found that wal-mart's low wages are costing the state of california alone eighty six million dollars a year to provide public assistance for basic stuff like food stamps and health care for that retailers forty four thousand low wage employees in california that state california spends nearly two thousand dollars every single year on each wal-mart employee who can't afford basic essentials like housing food and health care on their wal-mart paycheck in total it's estimated that wal-mart stores loot more than two and a half two point six billion dollars every single year from the federal government in the form of taxpayer funded public assistance for their employees that includes more than one billion dollars in health care costs associated with medicaid and two hundred twenty five million dollars in free or reduced price lunch is for school children a wal-mart employees and now as reported by the huffington post wal-mart is planning to loot even more from us taxpayers as the giant corporation adopts a new health care policy that will deny insurance for employees working fewer
berkeley found that wal-mart's low wages are costing the state of california alone eighty six million dollars a year to provide public assistance for basic stuff like food stamps and health care for that retailers forty four thousand low wage employees in california that state california spends nearly two thousand dollars every single year on each wal-mart employee who can't afford basic essentials like housing food and health care on their wal-mart paycheck in total it's estimated that...